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The criterion validity of the First Year Inventory and the Quantitative-CHecklist for Autism in Toddlers : a longitudinal study

Levante, Annalisa ; Petrocchi, Serena ; Lecciso, Flavia

In: Brain sciences, 2020, vol. 10, no. 10, p. 22

Pediatric surveillance through screening procedures is needed to detect warning signs of risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder under 24 months of age and to promote early diagnosis and treatment. The main purpose of this study is to extend the literature regarding the psychometric properties of two screening tools, the First Year Inventory (FYI) and the Quantitative- CHecklist for Autism in Toddler...

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Analyzing system performance with probabilistic performance annotations

Rogora, Daniele ; Carzaniga, Antonio (Dir.) ; Soulé, Robert (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020INFO024.

Understanding the performance of software is complicated. For several performance metrics, in addition to the algorithmic complexity, one must also consider the dynamics of running a program within different combinations of hardware and software environments. Such dynamical aspects are not visible from the code alone, and any kind of static analysis falls short. For example, in reality, the...

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Sedentary behavior in children by wearable cameras: development of an annotation protocol

Hänggi, Johanna M. ; Spinnler, Simon ; Christodoulides, Efstathios ; Gramespacher, Elke ; Taube, Wolfgang ; Doherty, Aiden

In: American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2020, vol. 59, no. 6, p. 880–886

Introduction: There is increasing evidence that not all types of sedentary behavior have the same harmful effects on children's health. Hence, there has been a growing interest in the use of wearable cameras. The aim of this study is to develop a protocol to categorize children's wearable camera data into sedentary behavior components.Methods: Wearable camera data were collected in 3...

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Enigmatic dinosaur precursors bridge the gap to the origin of Pterosauria

Ezcurra, Martín D. ; Nesbitt, Sterling J. ; Bronzati, Mario ; Vecchia, Fabio Marco Dalla ; Agnolin, Federico L. ; Benson, Roger B. J. ; Egli, Federico Brissón ; Cabreira, Sergio F. ; Evers, Serjoscha W. ; Gentil, Adriel R. ; Irmis, Randall B. ; Martinelli, Agustín G. ; Novas, Fernando E. ; Silva, Lúcio Roberto da ; Smith, Nathan D. ; Stocker, Michelle R. ; Turner, Alan H. ; Langer, Max C.

In: Nature, 2020, vol. 588, no. 2020-7838, p. 445–449

Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight1 and comprised one of the main evolutionary radiations in terrestrial ecosystems of the Mesozoic era (approximately 252–66 million years ago), but their origin has remained an unresolved enigma in palaeontology since the nineteenth century2,3,4. These flying reptiles have been hypothesized to be the close relatives of a wide...

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Students' Problem Behaviors as Sources of Teacher Stress in Special Needs Schools for Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities

Amstad, Meta ; Müller, Christoph Michael

In: Frontiers in Education, 2020, vol. 4, p. 1-11

Students with intellectual disabilities in special needs schools often exhibit high levels of problem behaviors. Besides of the challenges for the concerned individuals, peers, and their caregivers, problem behaviors can also be a source of stress for teachers. However, less is known on which exact behaviors are perceived as how stressful in special needs schools for students with...

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Systematic review of level 1 and level 2 screening tools for Autism Spectrum Disorders in toddlers

Petrocchi, Serena ; Levante, Annalisa ; Lecciso, Flavia

In: Brain sciences, 2020, vol. 10, no. 3, p. 31 p

The present study provides a systematic review of level 1 and level 2 screening tools for the early detection of autism under 24 months of age and an evaluation of the psychometric and measurement properties of their studies. Methods: Seven databases (e.g., Scopus, EBSCOhost Research Database) were screened and experts in the autism spectrum disorders (ASD) field were questioned; Preferred...

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Long non-coding RNAs as molecular signatures for canine B-Cell lymphoma characterization

Cascione, Luciano ; Giudice, Luca ; Ferraresso, Serena ; Marconato, Laura ; Giannuzzi, Diana ; Napoli, Sara ; Bertoni, Francesco ; Giugno, Rosalba ; Aresu, Luca

In: Non-coding RNA, 2019, vol. 5, no. 3, p. 47

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), marginal zone lymphoma (MZL) and follicular lymphoma (FL) are the most common B-cell lymphomas (BCL) in dogs. Recent investigations have demonstrated overlaps of these histotypes with the human counterparts, including clinical presentation, biologic behavior, tumor genetics, and treatment response. The molecular mechanisms that underlie canine BCL are...

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Swisslink: high-precision, context-free entity linking exploiting unambiguous labels

Prokofyev, Roman ; Luggen, Michael ; Difallah, Djellel Eddine ; Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe

In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Semantic Systems, 2017, p. 65–72

Webpages are an abundant source of textual information with manually annotated entity links, and are often used as a source of training data for a wide variety of machine learning NLP tasks. However, manual annotations such as those found on Wikipedia are sparse, noisy, and biased towards popular entities. Existing entity linking systems deal with those issues by relying on simple statistics...

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Checklist of gypsophilous vascular flora in Italy

Musarella, Carmelo Maria ; Mendoza-Fernández, Antonio Jesús ; Mota, Juan Francisco ; Alessandrini, Alessandro ; Bacchetta, Gianluigi ; Brullo, Salvatore ; Caldarella, Orazio ; Ciaschetti, Giampiero ; Conti, Fabio ; Martino, Luciano Di ; Falci, Amedeo ; Gianguzzi, Lorenzo ; Guarino, Riccardo ; Manzi, Aurelio ; Minissale, Pietro ; Montanari, Sergio ; Pasta, Salvatore ; Peruzzi, Lorenzo ; Podda, Lina ; Sciandrello, Saverio ; Scuderi, Leonardo ; Troia, Angelo ; Spampinato, Giovanni

In: PhytoKeys, 2018, vol. 103, p. 61–82

Our understanding of the richness and uniqueness of the flora growing on gypsum substrates in Italy has grown significantly since the 19th century and, even today, new plant species are still being discovered. However, the plants and plant communities, growing on gypsum substrates in Italy, are still a relatively unknown subject. The main aim of this paper was to elaborate a checklist of the...

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More than “100 worst” alien species in Europe

Nentwig, Wolfgang ; Bacher, Sven ; Kumschick, Sabrina ; Pyšek, Petr ; Vilà, Montserrat

In: Biological Invasions, 2018, vol. 20, no. 6, p. 1611–1621

“One hundred worst” lists of alien species of the greatest concern proved useful for raising awareness of the risks and impacts of biological invasions amongst the general public, politicians and stakeholders. All lists so far have been based on expert opinion and primarily aimed at representativeness of the taxonomic and habitat diversity rather than at quantifying the harm the alien...